Thomas Hobbes

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.